Hi all,
I've restored a few Series Landies in the past and owned/worked on a few Military Defenders, but never done a COMPLETE rebuild onto a new chassis before.
I've been given a thoroughly rotten G reg (1989?) Defender 90 2.5Tdi that I want to rebuild onto a new galvanized chassis.
I've looked at the Richard's chassis, etc, but I'm seeing a lot of Defender 90 TD5 chassis on ebay, "brand new", for a prices that would give me an extra £600 to spend on the rebuild as opposed to buying brand new (@£1400).
My question is, how easy is it to modify a TD5 chassis to suit a 2.5Tdi rebuild?.
Anyone got any advice on what would need to be done?
I'd love to fit a 200tdi or 300tdi, but I want to do this conversion within the DVLA rules... (https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-registration/radically-altered-vehicles, have a reciept for the new chassis + proof of destruction of the old one, etc.).
Cheers folks!
I will be "blogging" it here while I do it. I have until May 2014 to complete it as a new member of the family is arriving, so it really needs to be done by then (sounds like one of those "against the clock" Discovery channel programs doesn't it?
)
I've restored a few Series Landies in the past and owned/worked on a few Military Defenders, but never done a COMPLETE rebuild onto a new chassis before.
I've been given a thoroughly rotten G reg (1989?) Defender 90 2.5Tdi that I want to rebuild onto a new galvanized chassis.
I've looked at the Richard's chassis, etc, but I'm seeing a lot of Defender 90 TD5 chassis on ebay, "brand new", for a prices that would give me an extra £600 to spend on the rebuild as opposed to buying brand new (@£1400).
My question is, how easy is it to modify a TD5 chassis to suit a 2.5Tdi rebuild?.
Anyone got any advice on what would need to be done?
I'd love to fit a 200tdi or 300tdi, but I want to do this conversion within the DVLA rules... (https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-registration/radically-altered-vehicles, have a reciept for the new chassis + proof of destruction of the old one, etc.).
Cheers folks!
I will be "blogging" it here while I do it. I have until May 2014 to complete it as a new member of the family is arriving, so it really needs to be done by then (sounds like one of those "against the clock" Discovery channel programs doesn't it?
)
